Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is telling us something. We are starting to see that tenure type and costs in the city centre means that people are moving further out. In fact, the city is not growing in the way it was planned to grow in the mid-1990s. The plan was that there would be higher density housing in the city centre and lower density housing further out. What is happening now is that fully formed families are arriving out in Kildare so we cannot predict the demand for school places or public transport. There is no doubt that people are commuting longer. The origin of the problem is the housing issue but the NTA has to respond to it.